Re: Progress with ParaGUI

["D. Cooper Stevenson" <cstevens@gencom.us>]

Dear Eric,

Your SDL progress is really tops; canning the SDL library installation process 
is no mean feat. this is because once you have the ParaGUI setup "canned" for 
the platforms then the rest is history; an application designer need only 
think about the SDL interface when designing for Xconq.

Noteably, This helps confirm what I had suspected regarding the "noise level" 
this last week: it was quiet because we all had our heads down working!

I will create a setup document as soon as the tarball is out of the oven.

Note to Elijah: please consider warming up the controls on your "publicity 
engine" over the next couple of weeks as it looks like we're making good 
progress at least three fronts: SDL, graphics, and GIS. If there's anything 
you need here, please let me know. Don't worry about bandwidth; I have it 
covered. 

Also, would you please send Gpeterz an email on my behalf and let him know 
that I think his unit portrait artwork is excellent?

In short, when I think about the progress we're making it makes me shake my 
head a little and thing, "it's a good thing." This is sweet, Eric!


-Coop

On Sunday 07 November 2004 08:29, Eric McDonald wrote:
> Hello Xconq Developers,
>
>    I am making good progress in preparing Xconq to use the ParaGUI
> toolkit for the SDL interface. The Linux side of things is essentially
> taken care of; I have already made RPM packages for ParaGUI. Most of the
> Windows preparation went pretty smoothly. I have had to fight a few
> compilation issues here and there, but I think that things are almost
> taken care of. I will try to finish up that battle later today so that I
> can go ahead and create a Windows installer for the ParaGUI libraries
> and headers (for developers and others who are interested in building
> the soon-to-be SDL/ParaGUI interface from sources). I have already
> documented where existing Windows installers for the various ParaGUI
> dependencies can be found (and the recommended way to use them), and I
> will make that document available later today after I get some sleep.
>
>    Regular players and game designers should not notice much change with
> the SDL interface, at least not until next weekend.
>
>    Regards,
>      Eric